(op-ed:..) suggestion: i mean – good on him for speaking up/out – tho’ he could lead/show by example – divesting papal-monies from all the industries that are causing the fucken mess in the first place – (‘cos decrying-of and profiting-from at the same time do make such uneasy bedfellows..eh..?)
that and wholesale ‘greening’ of all church activities/sermons on the need for change/papal-decrees to followers – would give his words an added/much-needed ring of authenticity..eh..?..

hell..!..he could even go wild and crazy and stop also contributing to one third of our ‘problem’ (if you can so diminish the inexcusable/undeniable fact that continuing on the current path – thus guaranteeing the end of humanity – as/by calling it a ‘problem’…a fungal-nail infection is a ‘problem’ – a leaking roof is a problem..this is all kinda more so than that..eh..?) –

so my other suggestion for the pope – to demonstrate sincerity – is that he could stop supporting/eating the end-products from the animal-farming charnel-houses..and most importantly he should start instructing his followers/issuing papal-decrees on such matters..eh..?

and the pope not doing any of that/the above leaves his words as just so much more – albeit papal – hot-air..eh..?..

..and the pope/the catholic church (and all the other brands) need to become leaders in this new reformation..

..time is fast running out..)

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Pope Francis has denounced ‘short-sighted human activity’ for causing global warming and rising sea levels and urged world leaders at climate talks in Germany to act in tackling heat-trapping emissions.

The pontiff spoke out as he met a delegation of Pacific leaders in the Vatican and told them he shares their concerns about rising sea levels and increasingly intense weather systems that are threatening their small islands.

He decried in particular the state of oceans – where overfishing and pollution by plastics and micro-plastics are killing fish stocks and sea life that are critical to Pacific island livelihoods.

While several causes are to blame ‘sadly many of them are due to short-sighted human activity connected with certain ways of exploiting natural and human resources – the impact of which ultimately reaches the ocean bed itself’ the pontiff warned.

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Pope Francis has warned against the rise of populist leaders like Adolf Hitler.

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When asked if he worries about the rise of populism in the United States and Europe – he said people should not repeat the same mistakes as in the 1930s – when they turned to ‘saviours’ to resolve economic and political crises only to end up at war.

‘Crises provoke fear – alarm.

In my opinion the most obvious example of European populism is Germany in 1933’ the Pope said.

‘A people that was immersed in a crisis – that looked for its identity until this charismatic leader came and promised to give their identity back and he gave them a distorted identity and we all know what happened’.

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Pope Francis has said there is ‘no point’ in people going to church if they do not follow the teachings of the Bible in their daily lives.

The head of the Catholic church took a stand against what he termed ‘Christian parrots’ who talk a lot about their religion but don’t do good deeds.

‘If I say I am Catholic and go to mass but then don’t speak with my parents – help my grandparents or the poor – go and see those who are sick – this does not prove my faith – there’s no point’ he told young residents of Guidonia – a village near Rome.

‘Those who do this are nothing but Christian parrots – words – words – words’ said the Pope – according to Italian newspaper La Stampa.’Christian faith is expressed with three things: words – the heart – and the hands’.

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Pontiff says humans are turning planet into ‘wasteland full of debris, desolation and filth’ – in call for urgent action on climate change.

Pope Francis has called for urgent action to stop climate change and proposed that caring for the environment be added to traditional Christian works of mercy such as feeding the hungry and visiting the sick.

In a message to mark the Catholic church’s World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation that he launched last year Francis said the worst impact of global warming was being felt by those who were least responsible for it – refugees and the poor.

The pontiff used the occasion to revive many of the powerful issues he highlighted a year ago in his provocative encyclical on the environment Laudato si’ and his latest message seems certain to rankle conservatives.

Francis described man’s destruction of the environment as a sin and accused mankind of turning the planet into a ‘polluted wasteland full of debris – desolation and filth’.